My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician by Lon Milo DuQuette There are those who agree with the great twentieth-century magician, Aleister Crowley, who wrote in his introduction to Goetia, “The spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain.” While I’m not sure I altogether agree, Mr. Crowley …

Probably the most early common use was in imitation of stones, as the emerald, lapis lazuli, crystal, murra, opal, carbunculus, topaz, jasper, hyacinthus, obsidian, sapphire, pearls, onyx, and many others, for the adornment of objects, for earrings, rings, baubles, cups, amulets, and other articles, Roman glass has been unearthed throughout the empire with wonderful findings …

Thread of Gold Arthur Christopher Benson (1907) Sometimes the water-drop glides in the sun among mossy ledges, or lingers by the edge of the copse, where the hazels lean together ; but sometimes it is darkened and polluted, so that it would seem that the foul oozings that infect it could never be purged away. But the …

The Magnetic Gaze Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) “Fascination is actualized by a lucid and subtle virtue which the heat of the heart gives birth to as one equipped with a purer blood. This heat is emanated in the form of rays which, emitted by open eyes fixing their gaze with strong imaginative power, ultimately produce a …

Lustre of the Soul of the Sleeper The Science of Hypnotism Edited and Compiled by L.E. Young (1888) The whole manner seems to undergo a reﬁnement which, in the higher stages, reached a most striking point, insomuch, that we see, as it were, before us a person of a much more elegant and elevated character …

The Dual Mind by Howard L. Page (1909) One of the commonest characteristics of persons who are possessed of gifts of the imagination, such as writers, painters, actors, etc., is a lack of power of concentration. The much abused term artistic temperament, is properly used to designate this very common place defect. Under whatever name, …

Poets Speak of the Invisible World But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting; they are the instituters of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of …